Feminist’s poster removed after complaint from transgender activist

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull had arranged for the poster to coincide with the Labour Party conference

The poster featured only six words: “Woman, women, noun, adult human female.” Yet they were still deemed too dangerous by one transgender activist who has branded the poster, which carries the dictionary definition of woman, as hate speech in an “absurd” and “Orwellian” row.

The giant poster in Liverpool quoted the definition of woman, according to the Google dictionary.

It survived for about a week before it was removed under pressure from Adrian Harrop, a Twitter activist and NHS doctor, who complained that it made transgender people feel unsafe.

The poster was taken down by the billboard company, which offered an apology after a complaint from Adrian Harrop, a Twitter activist

He successfully demanded its removal after lobbying the chief executive and senior directors of the billboard company, Primesight, on social media, accusing them of being complicit “in the spread of transphobic hate speech”.

Within hours the…

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